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However, to achieve this goal, these American Africans must heed Garvey’s advice and abandon slavish allegiance to political parties which unabashedly exploit anti-black sentiment or fail to deliver on any of their promises made in black churches. Instead, they should pledge allegiance to programs of racial uplift worldwide. Black people should support President Bush in his efforts to save the lives of other black people, including those in Darfur, while vociferously condemning his efforts that hurt them, such as ending affirmative action, withholding money from global AIDS funding and overthrowing the democratically elected government of Haiti...
...state of the union address last week, u.s. president George W. Bush restrained himself on the topic of North Korea, saying merely: "We are working closely with the governments in Asia to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions." That was it. Nothing about an "axis of evil" or "outposts of oppression." Leaving aside the question of how closely Washington is working with China and other countries that are urging Kim Jong Il to surrender his nukes, the President's statement, however brief, signals a continued commitment to the six-party talks, which have been stalled since June. North...
Though he had planned to follow in family tradition and become a doctor after receiving a medicine degree from the University of Greifswald in 1925, a desire to travel led him to abandon medicine, according to a Harvard News Office press release. He then completed a doctorate in Biology at the University of Berlin just 16 months later...
...LIBYA BEEN REWARDED FOR ABANDONING WMD? Libya and the whole world expected a positive response--not just words, although they were nice words--from America and Europe. Blair and Bush expressed their satisfaction. But there must be at least a declaration of a program like the Marshall Plan, to show the world that those who wish to abandon the nuclear-weapon program will be helped. They promised, but we haven't seen anything...
Missing entirely from the speech was any direct reference to the events transpiring in Iraq. Instead, Bush made a single allusion to the conflict, saying “Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill and would be dishonorable to abandon.” Difficult is an understatement. As of Friday, 1,372 American soldiers have died and at least 10,502 have been wounded. Meanwhile, this coming Sunday, Iraqis are poised to hold an historic—if uncertain—election to pick a 275-member National Assembly. This will likely be the final chance...